A BRUTAL STABBING AND HOME INVASION IN EXCELSIOR SPRINGS. A MOTHER OF TWO CLINGS TO LIFE AFTER NEIGHBORS HEAR HER SCREAMS FOR HELP. KMBC 9'S SCOTT MCDONNELL SPOKE WITH THOSE WHO LIVE NEARBY THE CRIME SCENE IN EXCELSIOR SPRINGS. THOSE NEIGHBORS TELLING THIS 43-YEAR OLD WOMAN WAS A REGISTERED NURSE. SHE'S GOING TO SURVIVE...BUT HAS A LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY FROM WHAT LOOKS LIKE A VISCOUS STABBING.... THIS PLAYED OUT EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING...HER KIDS HAS JUST GONE TO SCHOOL. A WOMAN WHO LIVES NEXT DOOR TOLD US THE VICTIM WAS HEARD SCREAMING FOR HELP. HER HUSBAND SAW HER STRUGGLING TO ESCAPE OUT HER FRONT DOOR....WITH THE SUSPECT PULLING HER BACK INSIDE. "HE SEEN THE MAN TRYING TO PULL HER BACK INTO THE HOUSE, HE GOT OUT AND SAID YOU GO AWAY AND I'LL KILL YOU TOO..SO THE MAN HAD EVERY INTENTION OF TRYING TO KILL THIS WOMAN" THAT MAN CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF THE SUSPECT WHO WAS WEARING A DARK HOODIE. HE WILL WORK WITH POLICE TO CATCH THE SUSPECT...AND RIGHT NOW WE KNOW POLICE DO HAVE A PERSON OF INTEREST...A SEARCH WARRANT WAS SERVED LAST NIGHT. I'M TOLD NOTHING OF VALUE WAS STOLEN FROM THE HOME.... EVIDENCE WAS LEFT AT THE SCENE..A SEARCH WARRANT WAS SERVED LAST NIGHT...BUT RIGHT NOW NO ARREST WAS MADE. POLICE IN EXCELSIOR SPRINGS TELL US THEY WILL HAVE A HEIGHTENED POLICE